detention camp
Example Sentences
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Escape attempts from the largest detention camp in northeast Syria, Al Hol, have increased this year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
These long-standing facilities were joined this month by a slapdash detention camp in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
From Salon • Jul. 21, 2025
Morey’s great-grandfather, who came here in 1892, was sent to a detention camp in Tuna Canyon where the feds kept the foreign-born it regarded as security risks.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2025
Alfred had been arrested and was being held in the Westerbork detention camp in The Netherlands.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2025
There he found that the plague had spent itself and that Bim had gone to a detention camp outside the city of Chicago.
From A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy by Adams, John Wolcott
